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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should all resent that loss, and recognize it, even in its mildest form, as something we consider briefly and in the back of our minds. Even every time we enter the dining hall and fill up our trays with salad or soup or pasta or french fries...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Dieting Dilemmas--Just a Waste of Time | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...much. But I have a feeling that it would surprise most women he might've asked, and that's a pretty miserable fact if you think about it. We go to the dining hall and watch girl after girl load up her tray with salad, while boys fill one plate with pasta and one with chicken fingers and save room for dessert. We consider both trays appropriate and normal...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Dieting Dilemmas--Just a Waste of Time | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...cement blocks, is a rusted, formerly red 1979 Jeep Cherokee, used to teach bodywork. In the back of the shop, huge wooden slabs, stained by oil and grease, lie on top of old gym lockers, creating the lab space where students learn engine anatomy. All sorts of auto parts fill the shelves and remaining floor space. "All this stuff is just tools," says Mandernach, looking around his shop, "tools to motivate kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 7:33 A.M. The Auto Shop | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Groves find sanctuary underground--in Gene Clifford's basement, a dim cavern that reeks of cigarettes. Here, 16-year-old Gene and his friends have created a study hall-cum-social center. Posters of Pink Floyd, The X-Files and Tori Amos line the walls. Encyclopedias, dictionaries and classics fill the bookshelves. A computer with Internet access lights up the corner. The room is a cocoon, protected from the rest of the student body, from which they feel alienated. "Here I have ready access to all of my friends," says Gene. "And it's not the Crestwood Mall, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thursday: 3:30 P.M. The Basement | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...many of you are not planning on going to college?" asks David Cady to the 61 seniors in his senior leadership seminar. No hands go up. Cady, who plans on having his class begin to fill out college applications next week, knows this is the first discussion of college many of these seniors have had this year. "How many have taken either the SAT or the ACT?" Fewer than half raise their hands. "How many of you have been to our career library?" Five hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 9:40 A.M. Senior Seminar | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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